>There are many free blog posting platforms out there that don't annoy users like that [...] All it takes is a couple of minutes to sign up... Your proposed su

>There are many free blog posting platforms out there that don't annoy users like that [...] All it takes is a couple of minutes to sign up... Your proposed suggestion usually can't be followed as it seems like you're not noticing the difference between the HN submitter userid vs the Twitter userid. The HN submitters sharing the links are usually not the Twitter authors. Consider the Twitter SSD thread on the HN frontpage right now and look at the metadata fields : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419618 * The HN user who submitted it : ahachete * The Twitter user: xenadu02 Side note: I notice that xenadu02's Twitter profile has a link to his blog website (http://russbishop.net http://russbishop.net) but he hasn't put any articles there since 2019. (It looks like that site doesn't have SSL enabled so it's not even modernized for https.) The SSD comparison was only published to his Twitter page. It's been frequently discussed why people do that even though many readers don't like it: the Twitter platform has more engagement from a bigger audience than a personal blog site.